Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures (international Library Of Sociology)
by Rebecca Coleman /
2012 / English / EPUB
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Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised
around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is
seen as key.
Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised
around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is
seen as key.Transforming Images
Transforming Images examines how the future
functions within this transformative logic to indicate the
potential of a materially better time. The book explores the
crucial role that images have in organising an imperative for
transformation and in making possible, or not, the
materialisation of a better future. Coleman asks the questions:
which futures are appealing and to whom? How do images tap into
and reproduce wider social and cultural processes of inequality?
examines how the future
functions within this transformative logic to indicate the
potential of a materially better time. The book explores the
crucial role that images have in organising an imperative for
transformation and in making possible, or not, the
materialisation of a better future. Coleman asks the questions:
which futures are appealing and to whom? How do images tap into
and reproduce wider social and cultural processes of inequality?
Drawing on the recent ‘turns’ to affect and emotion and to
understanding life in terms of vitality, intensity and ‘liveness’
in social and cultural theory, the book develops a framework for
understanding images as
Drawing on the recent ‘turns’ to affect and emotion and to
understanding life in terms of vitality, intensity and ‘liveness’
in social and cultural theory, the book develops a framework for
understanding images asfelt and lived out
felt and lived out. Analysing
different screens across popular culture – the screens of
shopping, makeover television programmes, online dieting plans
and government health campaigns – it traces how images of
self-transformation bring the future into the present and
affectively ‘draw in’ some bodies more than others.
. Analysing
different screens across popular culture – the screens of
shopping, makeover television programmes, online dieting plans
and government health campaigns – it traces how images of
self-transformation bring the future into the present and
affectively ‘draw in’ some bodies more than others.Transforming Images
Transforming Images will be of interest to students and
scholars working in sociology, media studies, cultural studies
and gender studies.
will be of interest to students and
scholars working in sociology, media studies, cultural studies
and gender studies.